UK general elections › 2015 › North Shropshire
North Shropshire — 2015
Owen Paterson (Conservative Party) was elected with 27,041 votes— 51.4% of 52,573 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 51.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +1.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 52,573
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share of votes Candidate votes ÷ valid votes in this constituency. Matches the share the returning officer publishes. | Below quota Elected candidate's share of valid votes minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = won the seat below the quota; positive = cleared it. | Elected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Owen Paterson | Conservative Party | 27,041 | 51.4% | +1.4 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Graeme Currie | Labour Party | 10,547 | 20.1% | — | |
| 3 | Andrea Allen | UK Independence Party | 9,262 | 17.6% | — | |
| 4 | Tom Thornhill | Liberal Democrats | 3,148 | 6.0% | — | |
| 5 | Duncan Kerr | Green Party | 2,575 | 4.9% | — |
Source data: UK Parliament psephology database, retrieved
2026-05-19, generated
2026-05-19
(Open Parliament Licence v3.0). ETL version parliament-etl-psephology@1. Methodology: how these numbers are computed.